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Cooley grad with low GPA can't find work. Help?

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 4:30 pm
by Anonymous User
I went to cooley and had barely above a 2.0 GPA
Passed bar on 4th try. I apply to everything including legal aid clinics. No one seems willing to hire me. My felony doesn't help either. Suggestions?

Re: Cooley grad with low GPA can't find work. Help?

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 4:30 pm
by Thelaw23
Troll or...?

Re: Cooley grad with low GPA can't find work. Help?

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 4:32 pm
by grades??
Has to be troll 2/10

Re: Cooley grad with low GPA can't find work. Help?

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 4:33 pm
by luckyirish13
Thelaw23 wrote:Troll or...?
Anonymous User wrote:I went to cooley
Anonymous User wrote:barely above a 2.0 GPA
Anonymous User wrote:Passed bar on 4th try.
Anonymous User wrote:My felony doesn't help either.
lol

Re: Cooley grad with low GPA can't find work. Help?

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 4:37 pm
by clerk1251
Anonymous User wrote:I went to cooley and had barely above a 2.0 GPA
Passed bar on 4th try. I apply to everything including legal aid clinics. No one seems willing to hire me. My felony doesn't help either. Suggestions?
I heard that Shake Shack just opened in Michigan. They probably are hiring! GL.

Re: Cooley grad with low GPA can't find work. Help?

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 5:06 pm
by Pokemon
Op, you should mass mail big law firms, but also midlaw and even smaller litigation boutiques. Unfortunately, federal judges might be a tad out of your league, but try state supreme courts and courts of appeals.

Re: Cooley grad with low GPA can't find work. Help?

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 5:10 pm
by magnum_law
Don't sweat it, honestly.

The important thing is that you earned a JD. You'll land a six-figure job before you know it.

Re: Cooley grad with low GPA can't find work. Help?

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 5:20 pm
by NYC2012
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Re: Cooley grad with low GPA can't find work. Help?

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 6:01 pm
by Anonymous User
Look at Cooley's average GPA, bar pass rate, job stats, and mi bar rules on felonies...... It adds up. Just looking for any real advice. Been spam applying everywhere. Even for legal secretary work that claims to only need s HS diploma. Nothing seems to stick. Ironically big firms don't care one iota who does appearance work so the appearance agencies let me be the FAC of big law but for normally as low as $44 a hearing. Cram in a few per day and its ok but then it dries up for a few weeks and I endup at labor ready pulling trash out of recycling for $9 an hour with drug addicts who only are there since their po is monitoring their teather. Need real advice folks. Please. Thanks.

Re: Cooley grad with low GPA can't find work. Help?

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 6:08 pm
by star fox
Good luck, have you looked into doc review?

Re: Cooley grad with low GPA can't find work. Help?

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 6:10 pm
by grades??
Anonymous User wrote:Look at Cooley's average GPA, bar pass rate, job stats, and mi bar rules on felonies...... It adds up. Just looking for any real advice. Been spam applying everywhere. Even for legal secretary work that claims to only need s HS diploma. Nothing seems to stick. Ironically big firms don't care one iota who does appearance work so the appearance agencies let me be the FAC of big law but for normally as low as $44 a hearing. Cram in a few per day and its ok but then it dries up for a few weeks and I endup at labor ready pulling trash out of recycling for $9 an hour with drug addicts who only are there since their po is monitoring their teather. Need real advice folks. Please. Thanks.
LOL 1/10

Re: Cooley grad with low GPA can't find work. Help?

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 6:12 pm
by luckyirish13
Anonymous User wrote:Look at Cooley's average GPA, bar pass rate, job stats, and mi bar rules on felonies...... It adds up. Just looking for any real advice. Been spam applying everywhere. Even for legal secretary work that claims to only need s HS diploma. Nothing seems to stick. Ironically big firms don't care one iota who does appearance work so the appearance agencies let me be the FAC of big law but for normally as low as $44 a hearing. Cram in a few per day and its ok but then it dries up for a few weeks and I endup at labor ready pulling trash out of recycling for $9 an hour with drug addicts who only are there since their po is monitoring their teather. Need real advice folks. Please. Thanks.
Take a time machine back to the moment where you committed the felony, and then this time, don't do the felony. Then take another time machine back to your time in law school, and this time, actually get good grades. Take a third time machine back to elementary school, and learn to read, write, and spell in English. Lastly, take another time machine back to the decisive moment where you committed to Cooley school of law, and this time, don't.

Re: Cooley grad with low GPA can't find work. Help?

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 6:13 pm
by emkay625
Learn to code. (I'm being sincere.)

Re: Cooley grad with low GPA can't find work. Help?

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 7:57 pm
by 1styearlateral
Check out Torchy's Tacos, but not their legal department.

Re: Cooley grad with low GPA can't find work. Help?

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 10:24 pm
by Abbie Doobie
clerk1251 wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:I went to cooley and had barely above a 2.0 GPA
Passed bar on 4th try. I apply to everything including legal aid clinics. No one seems willing to hire me. My felony doesn't help either. Suggestions?
I heard that Shake Shack just opened in Michigan. They probably are hiring! GL.
might be able to lateral from there to a torchys tacos gig in a few years

eta : scooped

Re: Cooley grad with low GPA can't find work. Help?

Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 12:11 am
by ballouttacontrol
doc review

Re: Cooley grad with low GPA can't find work. Help?

Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 8:49 am
by TooMuchTuna
Retake.

Re: Cooley grad with low GPA can't find work. Help?

Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 7:37 pm
by Anonymous User
I've done doc review but its always temp work. And retake what?